ByJoey Biasi | February 3, 2018

Seventy-four percent of renters who made below $35,000 a year paid more than 30 percent of their income in rent and utilities. Only 21 percent of renters making above $35,000 had such a heavy rent burden.

ByJoyce Mandell | February 3, 2018

If we are going to honor the developers, we also have to acknowledge the role of those who create the crucial infrastructure of a vital built environment – the artists, the preservationists, the tree huggers and the tree planters. … They too are the “power players.”

The Worcester Public Schools’ New Citizens Center program is still getting its bearings after just one year. And — as not-quite-adult newcomers to the U.S. — its students are struggling to get theirs. Criticism is important, but so is patience. The key is excellence, whatever the setting.

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ByMatt Murphy | State House News Service | January 31, 2018

The state Gaming Commission launched an investigation following a Jan. 26 Wall Street Journal report on what the newspaper called “a decades-long pattern of sexual misconduct” by Steve Wynn — whose firm is building a $2.4 billion Everett gaming resort — including instances of pressuring employees to perform sex acts.

ByAndy Metzger | State House News Service | January 31, 2018

At the state level, where marijuana has been legalized for medical and other uses, stamping out the black market trade could bolster the regulated sale of the intoxicant, the governor said recently, and by extension sharpen the focus on efforts to beat back the fentanyl-charged opioid crisis.

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